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Christopher Lamm#

Senior Engineering Manager

Knoxville, TN | christopherlamm81@gmail.com | 865-287-4495

GitHub | LinkedIn

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Engineering leader with 30+ years of software development experience and a track record of building engineering organizations, developing leaders, and delivering technology aligned with business objectives.

Currently lead Data Engineering, Machine Learning, and AI Engineering at CompanyCam, including the CompanyCam AI Assistant initiative. Previously held Director of Software Engineering roles at two organizations, with experience spanning organizational development, technical strategy, platform modernization, and product delivery.

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Engineering Leadership: Organizational Design, Team Building, Leadership Development, Hiring, Career Frameworks, Cross-Functional Leadership

Strategy & Execution: Engineering Strategy, Technical Roadmaps, AI Product Delivery, Platform Modernization, Engineering Operations, Change Management

Technical Leadership: Software Architecture, AI/ML Platforms, Data Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, APIs, CI/CD

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Senior Engineering Manager | CompanyCam#

Remote | 2022–Present

Lead Data Engineering, Machine Learning, and AI Engineering, with six direct reports and leadership responsibility for two additional Staff Engineers.

  • AI product leadership: Directed engineering strategy, technical decisions, execution, and launch readiness for the CompanyCam AI Assistant. Expanded availability to 100% of new customer accounts by October 2026, with weekly companies actively messaging the Assistant growing from 19 to 854 between late July and mid-October.
  • Organizational development: Built three engineering teams from the ground up through hiring and internal reorganization, defining their missions, technical ownership, and cross-functional operating models.
  • ML platform modernization: Led strategy, vendor selection, and execution of infrastructure modernization using Modal and Weights & Biases. During the effort, the team reduced repeated document-extraction failures by approximately 80%.
  • Data platform modernization: Championed the company-wide transition from legacy Snowplow-based event tracking to Amplitude instrumentation, improving data integrity, validation, and developer experience while eliminating legacy vendor costs.
  • Talent development: Established department-wide engineering leveling and structured hiring practices. Mentored three individual contributors who earned promotions into engineering management.
  • Engineering operations: Led department-wide adoption of Jira and modernization of software capitalization tracking through Swarmia, improving visibility, coordination, and reporting while reducing manual effort.
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Director of Software Engineering | The Art of Education University#

Remote | 2020–2022

Established the internal engineering organization and owned technical strategy, architecture, and engineering roadmap for an online education platform.

  • Built and led a department of six software engineers and two QA engineers, completing the transition of software development and maintenance from external contractors.
  • Led phased modernization of a legacy WordPress platform, owning architecture, technology, and hosting decisions. Delivered production microservices for tenant management, authentication, authorization, and HubSpot CRM integration.
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Director of Software Engineering | KXVL Software#

Knoxville, TN | 2019–2020

Founding engineer and director, sharing technical leadership of a four-person engineering team with a fellow founding engineer.

  • Co-led architecture and successful production launch of a cryptocurrency brokerage platform processing real customer transactions.
  • Owned financial services development, personally implementing banking integrations, deposits, withdrawals, reconciliation, and KYC/AML integrations. Shared responsibility for engineering strategy and CI/CD.
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CTO & Founding Engineer | Additerra Inc.#

Knoxville, TN | 2016–2019

Partnered with a nontechnical founder to develop an internal prototype of a manufacturing cost-estimation SaaS platform. Owned technical strategy, architecture, and infrastructure while building a Laravel and Vue application supporting customer, project, material, and machine-profile management and estimation workflows.

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Lead Software Engineer | Averitt Express#

Remote | 2015–2019

  • Contributed to Symfony application architecture and engineering standards for enterprise logistics systems. Introduced CI and unit testing practices and drove frontend modernization from jQuery to Angular.
  • Implemented Active Directory integration and designed customer-facing RESTful APIs for shipping account management.
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Software Engineer (formerly QA Engineer) | EventBooking.com#

Knoxville, TN | 2008–2015

Progressed from quality assurance into software engineering, contributing to venue management software. Co-developed a production CMS and independently designed an XML-based customization capability adopted by customers.

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Education#

Associate of Applied Science, Information Technology, Multimedia
ITT Technical Institute | 2008